Punxsutawney Spirit, 1899-03-08

              i 13? ;v. >*>: ■ % m NO. 4a PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA., WEDNESDAY, MARCH 8, 1899. VOL. XXVI. AND  New Prices 5oc Waist for 39c. GOODS DELIVERED PROMPTLY ANYWHERE. Men's and off the price BoyS Overcoats. of Another Slice For the next two weeks we will give 25 per cent, off the marked price of every one in our stock  JOHNSON BLOCK, PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. New Spring Goods are here, and more arriving every day. Means9 Pharmacy. Two Valid Excuses. New Goods Ra6k6t Store P. P.ULONG'S Punxsutawney. For those who wish to make early selections, we have some good things to offer. FINK I ... lections.... ■"IllIf I NEW IDEA FINK ! PATT|0RCE8|iTS. We are busy every day opening up new goods. Those who buy first have always the best se~ PREVAIL AT— EBERHART'S Ru r CORSET . U U. SALE. 90c " " 65c Suitings for 50c Novelties for <1 .35 Crepons for $1.35 Mohair for - Blacks, Greens, Browns and Blues we carry in all the latost goods at the lowest prices. 69c. SOc. 25c. $1.15. - $1.15. High Class Novelties. New Dress Goods. It is unusual to sell new goods for loss than their value, but that is what we are doing, as wo buy so we sell. Victory Everywhere. So, too, it is pitiful to see how helpless these people are in estimating the things of the outside world. The story is quite credible of the mountaineer in Georgia who inquired why the folks of the country town were not more "tore up" over the Spanish war. "It hav been giv out in our settlement," said he, "thet them Spanish has fiyin' squadrons, and we 'low thet if one of them things should light in our parts they would be as hard on us as the rebs."—Atlantic Monthly. Then on a piece of bark I drew the nine digits. He read them all. Next came the combination of figures, and I included the date 1897. "I don't guess I can tell that thar." I explained it. And then a new test occured to me. "Do yon know what 1897 means?" "Hit's the year, hain't hit?" "But why la thia year called 1897? It is 1897 yeara since what?" "I never heard tell." Such people are ao far out of touch with modern life that they surprise and diaaapoint some who, without intimate acquaintence try to give them assistance. I recall a breezy mountaintop and a young hnnter, whose woodcraft had won my admiration. Delicately I touched upon the question of education. "Can you write numbers?" The answer came slow an guarded, "Reckon I can write some numbers." Bliu the Moaataiateps. ioc Ginghams at C- 7c. 20c " 15c. Phjues all prices—cheap. Stripes, Dotted and all colors. The best and choicest in the market has found its way into our store. Wash Goods. DRRSS LININGS, MUSLIN UNDKRWKAR, AND SHIRT WAISTS, For early buyers, at low prices for new goods. Kotn soon. Lace Curtains - 33c a pair and up. Mens Hats. New Line. Shoe Sale going on for early buyers. We will give you some bargains. Look here ! a pair of hose with every pair of shoes for man or woman, and a low price for shoes. Arriving This Week! Jackets Suits and Skirts We have pure Summer Wash Silks at 50c a yard in about -40 different new shades and patterns. Remember they aro worth all we ask. We have not selected a few patterns and marked them at 2 or 3 cents below actual value and then charge 15c extra on the balance, as we have noticed is being done by some. Silks and Ribbons! Wash Goods! Wash Goods! We have largest variety, best styles and lowest prices, that has ever been our privilege to oiler. In Blacks we aro especially strong and can please most poople looking for goods, from 15c to ♦ I 'J5 per yard. A look will convince you that our goods and prices are right. Dress Goods. Every department has been replenished with froah, attractive stock, purchased before much of any advance. This enablos us to give extra good valuos and a large varioty to select from. These advantages are for those who buy early. Granulated sugar price right- King's Best Flour, try n sack. Chase & Sanborn's fine roast Coffee. Best in tho world. Shredded Whoat Biscuit, 2 p'k'gs for 25c. Groceries. Choice of any K. & Q. number, for another week, 79c. A great many ladies have taken advantage of the opportunity to secure one of the R. & G. Corsets at the very low price which wo have boen offering. Many Indies have no doubt read the advertisement on tho back cover of the Ladies Home Journal, and know some of tho merits of this Corset. If you have not, come in and get a booklet, "Chosing a Corset." It contains points worth knowing. We have some very good things in this line. Serges— we have them in all colors and prices, that cannot be matched anywhere. For instance, 48 inch serge, guaranteed all wool, at flOc yard. Dress Goods. We have just unpacked a lot that have all the essential points of the new spring styles. Newest lasts, plain and vesting tops. Another lot ill a few days. Shoes. We have just unpacked a lot of ladies shoes in low and medium priced goods. Come in and see the one wo offer at - 98c. Others at $ 1.25, $1.50, $2. Shoes. Everything is new, and we are making prices lower than ever. Calico, Muslin, Towling and Lawns, 2}ic. Where can you bujr such goods as we sell U, at such low prices. ftUF—SED. Mens Shirts. New Goods. Silk Sale. Now C. I.aces and Embroideries-all new. Ribbons and Velvets. PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. JOHN H. FINK Wholesale apd Retail. If that is "Algerism," "Algerism" must be something which hereafter will be in general demand by the Governments of the world whenever they undertake the business of war making. Geu. Otis telegraphs from Manila, in answer to a report that the Philippine in - surgents were holding American prisoners, that "insurgents nave not taken nor do they hold a single prisoner of war," while our forces "hive captured over 1,500 insurgents since Febrnary 4." This was the story throughout our war with Spain. We lost no prisoners, no standards, no gans, but we took many. We lost no ships, but we destroyed many and captured many. We lost no battles; we won them all. In the face of this record, almost unprecedented in war, a noisy cabal of newspapers keeps on yelling "Algerism!" as if the Government had covered itself with disgrace by conducting a uniformly victorious and completely successful war against a civilized State with a great trained army in the field and a navy which began by boaating its superiority to our own. [New York Sun.J Cherokee Matrimonial Society. I happened, a night or two ago, just before sunset, to be standing on the edge of the parade ground in trontof the Fifth Infantry barracks when "Retreat" was sounded and the national colors were slowly lowered to the music of "The Star- Spangled Banner." A large number of dirty, ragged street urchins, of all ages, sizes and complexions, had assembled to watch the drill and the ilress parade. The instant that the band struck up "The Star-Spangled Banner" ami the (lag began to decend slowly from its staff, every oy who wore a hat or a cap promptly took it off and stood bareheaded in respectful silence until the ceremony ended. I don't know what they thought nor how much they understood, but I am told that they began this practice months ago of their own accord, when they first noticed that American bystanders followed it, and that they have strictly observed the custom ever since. There can be no doubt, 1 think, that American customs, American ideas and American methods are beginning already to influence not only the boys but the men and women of the city. In dress, in social habits, in commercial transactions and in a growing regard for neatness and cleanliness, ouesees everywhere the slow but sure working of the leaven of civilization and enlightenment. One year ago, under the Spanish regime, there was not a public schoolhouse in the city—that is, a building originally intended for educational purposes—nor was there anything like a system of free public instruction. Now there are seventeen elementary and granimer schools and a high school, with an average number of i ,923 pupils, and the private houses rented for temporary use as school buildings are wholly Inadequate to accommodate the number of children who have applied for admission. Major Baccardi, who is ex-officlo President of the Board of Public Instruction, has just recommended that thirty more schools, with accommodations for 1,500 mote scholars, be established within the limits of the municipality, as soon as there is money available.—fieorge Kennau in Outlook. I was greatly interested in seeing how rapidly the town is becoming Americanized. A ragged Cuban bootblack shouted at me, "Shtne? Shine 'em up?" How these Santiago street arabs have acquired precisely the words, voice, tone and pronunciation of the ferryboat bootblacks in New York I don't know; but they have. Many of them cau also count in English, and, I am sorry to say, swear fluently in the same language. Half the street boys in the city can whistle our bugle calls, "After the Ball" and "The Star-Spangled banner." The AnrrieailtatiaB of Santiago. 10 and 15 cts. China store 9ays, Kora & C the many big bargains aud new goods. They all sav go to Thong's where you can save money. U'r the judge. Bargains to those who first buy new goods—to make sales faster. McCall Patterns, P. P. LONG. 50c. per yard. Brustjoll Tapestry as low as - - ."»Oc\ " " Best quality - 75c. " Velvets, !)5c. per yard. Moquottoe, $1.00 per yard. Druggets to $8.<)() ouch. Matting I'J to li/Sc. per yd. Huge, $1.00 to $4.00 each. ling Carpet, :55c. ALL-WOOL INGKAIN, Carpet and Matting! Tho price* we name below will convince you that no one can give better values than we do, nor a better selection of patterns: Cottago Carpets, 'i'ic. per yd. Ingrain Carpets, M5c. Granite " 25c. '• Union .'{5c. ©HOES! We have Style, Quality and Perfect Fitting goods, and prices we guarantoc right on every pair. Try our now special for ladies, $ 1.25. "You, too f What makes you tired ?'' "I have been listening all day to my learned friend in Part n."—Rochester Herald. "May it please your Honor, I would like to ask that this ease go over." "l'or what reason ?" "I am too tired." The next case was called and another attorney arose: "On what ground," said the Judge. "Too tired ?" "Yes, your Honor, I have been arguing a case all day in Part 11, and I am really too fatigued to go on with this trial." "Very well, let the case go over. Cull the next case." Last week, late in the afternoon, a case was called by Judge Sutherland in County Court. "I would like to ask, your Honor, that this'-ase go over until to-morrow," said one of the attorm vs. Joseph Choate's Witty Remark. Highest prices paid for country i>rodueo. Trade at the PEOPLES1 POPl'LAlt STOKE and you make no mistake. Groceries, Flour and Seeds. For tine, fresh, family groceries, wo have them. GOLDEN SHEAF loads when you want good bread. CLOVER and TIMOTHY SEED, host grado only. Gardon Seeds of all kinds. J. B. EBERHART, OUR MOTTO:—Same Price Same Day to Everyone. Since Joseph Choate's appointment as ambassador to !• ngland, one of his wittiest sayings is being retold. It was made over s private dinner-table at which he and Mrs. Choate were guests. Some one inquired of him who he would like to be if he could not be himself. He paused a few seconds, as if thinking over the list of world celebrities, and then his eye rested upon his wife. "If" he answered, "I could not be myself, I should like to be Mrs. Choate's second husband."—Ar- Argonaut.New Suits, New Shirts, New Shoes, New Hats, New Neckwear New Furnishing Goods. Domestic Difference* Id the Union. "It is my intention," said the newly married man at an Oak Park dinner recently, "to have our pictures taken with my wife's hand on my shoulder." "And I," responded another man who had more experience, "am thinking of having ours taken with my wife's hand on my pocketbook."—Chicago Press. Be on Time the organizers. "It shall be the duty of every unmarried member to marry as soon as he or slie has reached the proper age, and has a suitable opportunity. It shall also be the duty of such couples to rear as many children as possible, and once more increase the race to where it once stood in the history of this country. "This club shall at once engage the services of some intelligent member, posessed of some powers of speech, and send him on a trip among the other tribes of this section, to tell them of our plan and ask them to organize similar clubs. This is the only way in which the red race can exist for the next century." This document is signed by thirteen Indians : Red Cloud, De Kinney Waters, Boudinot, Red Bird, Wolf, Slxkiller, Mcintosh, Secjuiche, Kagle Kye, White Horse, Houston, Mayes and Ingram. Some of these Indians are pure-blooded, while others have mixture of white blood. Six-killer, a full-blooded Cherokee,organized the club. He has attended the Indian school at Carlisle. The new idea is said to be meeting with much success amonglthe Creeks.—Chicago Inter-Ocean. "The purpose of this club shall be to instil into the hearts of Cherokee b)ys and girls that they shall not marry into the white race, nor any other than n member of their own tribe. The Cherokee race is rapidly becoming extinct, and this has been caused by intermarriage with other classes of people. If this is kept up much longer there will be no more Cherokees. Out of a once vast and powerful race we stand to-day only a few in comparison. "After one affixes his or her name to these resolutions and then marries outside of the race he shall suffer the penalty of death. He shall be shot iuthedark, by some member of this club, whose name none of the others will know, in accordance with an arrangement not written in these resolutions, but known to Thirteen young Cherokee Indians have organized a club, whose members are pledged, under penality of death, not to marry to any female outside of the Cherokee race. Womau will also be admitted, and, they, too must swear never tc wed any one except members of the tribe. ThiH society was organized last week and is growing rapidly. It has been named the Anti-American Marryiug Club. Following are the leading features of the constitution : Bright Remark* by B'rer Bangert. Do not keep an article that does not suit you. Your money back if in any way dissatisfied. With your SPRING SHOES, anil avoid that "left over" feeling. Start early enough to get the advantage of a store that makes a specialty of Fine Dress Shoes! That is where you save money by coming to us. We have the widest choice of stylos and quality, too. Our linos of— HT T ATjIT) Mens' and Boys' • J. JjUIjIj. furnisher, 9 PUNXSUTAWNEY, PA. Severe on Mr. Kipling. A Reformer li a man who failed to get the nomination on the machine ticket. When a man's sweetheart Is all the world to him he generally wants the earth. A11 men should be contented when they stop to think that the earth is at their feet. When we consider that the Spaniards fight and kill bulls we can see that the animal is not such a dangerous one after all. A drunken man is always willing to have a little more of the dog that bit him. [Biff Kun Tribune.] The chief thing raised in damp countries is umbrellas. Prices are the Lowest. Call iu and see samples and prices. A BIG STOCK est Designs JUSTIN. WallPapeR Paper. Lindsey, Pa. Street car faro paid from and to Punxsutawnoy. E. BROWN ELL, R. Will you call and see our new lines? Wo would bo ploased to show them to you. ?g _''J cannot be beat, nor equalled hut by fow dealers. The strongost lino of Mon's $3.50 shoes oYor shown in tho county, will be found at our store. $2.50, $3.00 and $3.50 Ladles' Fine Dress Shoes at * m Rudyard Kipling, during his stay in Wiltshire one summer, met little Dorothy Drew, Gladstone's granddaughter, and took her in the grounds and told her stories. After a time,-Mrs. Drew, fearing that Mr. Kipling must be tired of the child, called ner, and said: "Now Dorothy, I hope yon have not been wearying Mr. Kipling?" "Oh, not a bit, mother," replied the small celebrity, "but he haa been wearying me.''—Ex. But now I'm In the Union! I we there—overhead,The flag our tethers fought for; her rippling rule of red All glorious end victorious—the splendor of her stars— And I say: "The blood of heroes dyed ell her crimson ban." I'm for that flag forever 'gainst foes on sea and shore. Who shames her? Who defames her ? Give me my gun once more! We'll answer when they need us—when the war-fires light the night; There's a Lee still left to lead us to the glory of the light! See how the old flag ripples, and flaunts her folds In soorn. Her stars and bars will be the joy of nations yet unborn; And though she waves o'er new-made graves, 'neath alien sod and dew, There, in the starry silences, the gray sleep with the blue. We're oncfn heart forever—we're one in heart and hand; The flag's a challenge to the sea, a garland to the land. We're united-one great country: Freedom's the watchword still: There's a Lea that's left to lead us—let the storm breakwhere It will 1 —Frame L. BrmoR la Collier's Weakly. 2 1 say, I've been with Jackson, and Lee—he knew my name; And sometimes, when the fight wae on, he called me by the same. I followed fierce snd fearless where Longstreet led the way To fields whose bloody dalslee were blent with blue and gray. (THB HOl'THUI VKTCHAN Sl'UKS.) I've faced the flght with Jackson, I've marched along with Lee; I had some words with Sherman as he galloped to the sea; Exchanged brisk compliments with Grant when rict'ry seemed 13 view. My old steel bayonet glittering at many a breast in blue. yg t K %. i t -JSt T ill If Get an Education The best outfit In life. Best mothods nud || CENTRAL STATE NORMAL SCHOOL LOOK HAVCN (Cilatoa Co.), PA. Bkronff faculty, Taried oouries, good librar?, modern appintni in laboratory and irmaa* aifcm* handsome buildinta, ezteneive groaada. Shortest time, leaat expenae. State aid to etatiTrwork^off^^n^u^^oKh^VT^.•'*T " ,ihjfr *1''* J » - i